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Mehajer ordered to pay for 'marble palace'

Controversial property developer Salim Mehajer has been ordered to pay almost $670,000 for unpaid work on his western Sydney "marble palace" after failing to show up at court.

Prime Marble and Granite successfully sued Mehajer over a massive installation of marble at his Lidcombe home between April 2014 and July 2015.

"The plaintiff constructed a marble palace in accordance with the defendant's instructions, the exquisiteness of which is not in dispute," Judge Judith Gibson said in her written decision handed down on Wednesday.

The company's director had verbally agreed to buy two apartments "under development by an entity related to Mr Mehajer", offsetting the price of the marble installation against the purchase price of the units.

That deal ultimately fell through when Mehajer didn't get local government approval to construct the proposed development in mid-2015.

In August that year Mehajer was given an invoice for $596,178 for the "very extensive work carried out by the plaintiff", which he never paid.

A three-day hearing was scheduled at the District Court in Sydney from Wednesday but Mehajer failed to appear despite being served with a subpoena by the plaintiff to appear and give evidence.

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His lawyer, Penny Musgrave, was permitted to withdraw from the matter after outlining her difficulties in getting instructions and costs from Mehajer.

In an email sent on October 5, the day after he launched his new wedding and event planning business, Mehajer told Ms Musgrave she couldn't just "suddenly disappear" and he wanted her to continue representing him.

He instructed her "to inform the court that he was in Canberra" following the death of his grandmother, Judge Gibson said.

But the judge said there was no doubt Mehajer was well aware of the hearing date and he hadn't explained why his grandmother's recent death required him to remain in Canberra.

According to his social media, Mehajer was watching the Socceroos defeat Syria in a World Cup qualifying play-off in Sydney on Tuesday night.

Judge Gibson ordered Mehajer pay Prime Marble and Granite $668,277 as well as costs of the proceedings on an indemnity basis - a higher rate than usually applies in legal disputes.